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Old 27th Jul 2016, 14:47
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Machrihanish
 
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For instance, are you aware of the construction of the top layer of asphalt on modern runways? Are you aware that the top layer is deliberately porous to allow the draining away of surface water, through a myriad of tiny tunnels? (A technique invented and developed in The Netherlands, also Singapore University has done some work on this subject, which involves the mixing of tyre rubber with tarmac to achieve the porous effect).
Now that we tap into the delicacies of runway construction - how do you physically explain your pool of fuel on the crown of a monsoon zone runway which is sloped towards its edges? Fuel gushing from wing tanks so forcefully it creeps up-crown from where to drain to port?

777's port slides clearly reach into the left half of the runway, don't they.

Let's wait for some facts, right? How long?
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